Cedric Dawe

[…]n when a picture was scheduled, how quickly was an Art Director assigned to it and tell us how it worked.C. D. It wasn’t assigned. It was just a solo script and just on the floor. No time to do anything at all.R. F. No lead time?C. D. No time to do any drawings. The first picture I was on, which was[…]

Gordon Hales

[…]there any more to say about the film societies? The London one and also the one you started in Ipswich? I'm curious. For example, what was the the subscription in Ipswich? Or any idea? No.Gordon Hales  13:18  No, if I said 10 shillings a season or something? It would be that sort of thingI[…]

Robert Beatty

This recording is the copyright of the British Entertainment History Project. The transcript is not verbatim.Interviewer Roy Fowler. Interview Date: 18th August 1988.SIDE 1, TAPE 1Roy Fowler: You've been in this country 50 years now.Robert Beatty: More now, I came over in 1937. I went to Toronto for[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…] Wylie he was a writer and used to collaborate with my father sometimes I suppose on screen plays, with his brother Julian on er the libretto and the script for shows but I don’t think he was ever a great success. The only show that I was told that, that I can remember was a Lupino Lane show called […]

Alan Lawson

[…]d camera in the camera room, it was an old Bell and Howell and it was not the type of clapper gate that you had the clips for but you had to undo two scripts to take it out. And it was known as the Ideal, I think because it had come from Ideal pictures. There was that and I examined that thoroughly […]

Alan Lawson

[…] a ssistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and […]
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